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11 years ago

Defining Symbol-File in VHDL. Is this possible?

Hi, I'm just curious, is there a way to describe how Quartus should create a Symbol-File in VHDL? :confused: My intention is to tell the "Symbol-File-Generator" that for example an Input h...
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11 years ago

I don't see what VHDL should do for the definition of symbol file details, e.g. the layout port. bsf files are text files, so you are free to generate them e.g. by a tcl or java script. You can even define some special VHDL comments or private attributes that are read by the script and used to place the symbol ports.